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United States of America: Adoption of Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

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Adoption of Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

The US President signs the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. The Order encourages the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to draft rules regarding surveillance and the accumulation of data. Furthermore, the effect of mergers on user privacy is to be scrutinised by the FTC in mergers involving Big Tech companies.

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Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Data protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
cross-cutting
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
central government

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2021-07-09
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The US President signs the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. The Or…

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1
Type Private organisation
Economic activity cross-cutting
Category All

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data (any form): data collection
data (any form): storage (any form)

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data (any form): data collection

data (any form): storage (any form)